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| 1365360 | 2014-01-17 07:35:00 | OK. try sudo fdisk -l and sudo os-prober enter your password when asked. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1365361 | 2014-01-17 07:36:00 | Just reading this thread, and While I sh1t all about linux, ( Fred would know 100% more) finding out the following, QUESTION: may or may not apply, if ( in Zorin) trying to list the partitions, using fdisk -l does nothing, but adding sudo before hand lists the following ( from a VM) See first two commands -- :2cents: Is this what you are wanting to see from Smurf fred ?? BTW -- short cut keys to open terminal try use ctrl+Alt+t 5479 (of course I only have the OS as single) Always thought you have to use sudo as its administrator permissions ?? Edited -- SNAP fred :) answered my question |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1365362 | 2014-01-17 07:42:00 | Ok..here goes...and thanks to you too Wainui........Fred thanks for your persistence :) jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for jill: Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xcab10bee Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 220481440 110240689 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 373463055 390716864 8626905 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 220481534 373463039 76490753 5 Extended /dev/sda5 220481536 370317311 74917888 83 Linux /dev/sda6 370319360 373463039 1571840 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo os prober sudo: os: command not found |
smurf (6545) | ||
| 1365363 | 2014-01-17 07:48:00 | Hopefully I'm wrong with this (Fred will be able to reply, its beyond my knowledge at the moment) -- found the following article, relating to os-prober finding nought :( askubuntu.com | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1365364 | 2014-01-17 07:55:00 | Read your reply Wainui and did this ...hopefully Fred can make sense of it :) jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-31-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-31-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows XP Media Center Edition on /dev/sda1 Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda2 done |
smurf (6545) | ||
| 1365365 | 2014-01-17 07:59:00 | Read your reply Wainui and did this ...hopefully Fred can make sense of it :) jill@jill-ES004AA-ABG-m7369a:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-31-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-31-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows XP Media Center Edition on /dev/sda1 Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda2 done Should be able to, He knows linux, from what I can see anyway, XP is there -- Its hiding, looks like the sudo update-grub command was needed. ( make mental note to self for future usage) How to fix it though -- no blimmin idea :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1365366 | 2014-01-17 08:14:00 | hahahaha...thanks Wainui...yep I thought I could see XP there...so here's hoping Fred will have the solution :) | smurf (6545) | ||
| 1365367 | 2014-01-17 08:24:00 | Yep, that looks all good, XP is there and detected, and added to the grub boot list (if it wasn't before). As for why it's not showing at startup ... found this here (www.linuxquestions.org): Found this Ubuntu, ( which zorin is based on ) stopped displaying the grub boot menu, can't remember when I think it was recently 13.04 Try holding / pressing (repeatedly) SHIFT key as it is first booting. This is supposed to show a grub menu that has been set to hidden, (although may not if timeout is set to 0 - thanks ubuntu... :groan:) If not, or to change it to always show: edit /etc/default/grub ( as root ) Do this from your terminal sudo nano /etc/default/grub'nano' is a simple cli text editor. Once you have made the changes below, press ctrl-x to exit and say Y to save changes (prompt at bottom of screen). make sure it has GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 or some none zero number ( seconds ) also , if it exists comment out ( start line with # ) GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 then sudo update-grub I must say, this is a pretty poor default for a supposedly newb-friendly distro! |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1365368 | 2014-01-17 08:28:00 | Thanks Fred....will follow this later and report back on success or otherwise....I really appreciate your help and Wainui's too :) | smurf (6545) | ||
| 1365369 | 2014-01-17 11:27:00 | Well Fred I tried following your advice/instructions but after doing so I still can't get XP to show in a boot menu. Zoring loads......end of story:) | smurf (6545) | ||
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